11,600 years-old communal structure from the Neolithic of southern Jordan

The area known as the fertile crescent of south-west Asia is an area where evidence is being found for the transition of man from a hunter gather to a
sedentary farming style. The following PDF is recommended reading to those interested in that story.

Considering the number of mounds x number of civilizations x number years I'd says bunches to the power of 4!

Literally thousands, I drove once from Antioch to Sirnak and Batman, Turkey and along those roads were hundreds of un-excavated mounds and likely
places. There are many more in Iraq, Jordan, Syria and further south and north not to count the ones in the Zagros mountains of Iran.

Have you ever been through the Levantine Valley? I havent, but It's a pretty interesting site and one of the earliest dated places of likely
cohabitation by Neanderthal and Cromagnon. In fact there were still Neanderthal living there after modern humans had moved on into Europe. It's an
extremely interesting site and hopefully I can make it there at some point.

Have you ever been through the Levantine Valley? I havent, but It's a pretty interesting site and one of the earliest dated places of likely
cohabitation by Neanderthal and Cromagnon. In fact there were still Neanderthal living there after modern humans had moved on into Europe. It's an
extremely interesting site and hopefully I can make it there at some point.

Howdy

A conditional no, I'm not sure where that is unless you are talking about the central valley in northern Lebanon? Or are you referring to an other
location in the Middle East, like the Jordanian rift?

Considering the number of mounds x number of civilizations x number years I'd says bunches to the power of 4!

Literally thousands, I drove once from Antioch to Sirnak and Batman, Turkey and along those roads were hundreds of un-excavated mounds and likely
places. There are many more in Iraq, Jordan, Syria and further south and north not to count the ones in the Zagros mountains of Iran.

Considering the number of mounds x number of civilizations x number years I'd says bunches to the power of 4!

Literally thousands, I drove once from Antioch to Sirnak and Batman, Turkey and along those roads were hundreds of un-excavated mounds and likely
places. There are many more in Iraq, Jordan, Syria and further south and north not to count the ones in the Zagros mountains of Iran.

There's probably a hundred just around the Dead Sea area.

That probably a conservative number and I've only been to the Jordanian side.
Harte

Originally posted by cenpuppie
Thanks Hanslune. It makes me wonder how many more sites are out there waiting to be dug up.

edit on 26-7-2013 by cenpuppie because: (no reason
given)

think the answer there is till we stop digging, however, the issue is getting stories like this in the mainstream rather than 'and finally'.

Didn't fully understand what you were trying to say.

I think he means that (i) there are so many sites that people will keep finding new ones for as long as people keep looking for them, and that (ii)
the only time you hear about this discoveries is when they get stuck at the end of a news segment as the "upbeat light relief" story, rather than
treated as serious stories in their own right.

Originally posted by cenpuppie
Thanks Hanslune. It makes me wonder how many more sites are out there waiting to be dug up.

edit on 26-7-2013 by cenpuppie because: (no reason
given)

think the answer there is till we stop digging, however, the issue is getting stories like this in the mainstream rather than 'and finally'.

Didn't fully understand what you were trying to say.

I think he means that (i) there are so many sites that people will keep finding new ones for as long as people keep looking for them, and that (ii)
the only time you hear about this discoveries is when they get stuck at the end of a news segment as the "upbeat light relief" story, rather than
treated as serious stories in their own right.

No shortage of sites in the Middle-East. 99% of site reports never generate any interest outsite of a few other experts but every once in awhile
something comes up which become fadish and interests the mainstream people outside of archaeology Gobekli Tepe is the current darling and a generation
ago it was Catalhoyuk and the generation before that it was Shanidar.

A true sign of world wide charm is when a site gets worked into fringe archaeology conspiracy theories

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